Description
Fundamental Rights and Conflicts among Rights is divided into four parts: Genesis and Meaning of the Idea of Religious Liberty, Laicite and Natural Law, Birth and Transformation of the Culture of Liberty and Human Rights, and the Multiplication of Rights and the Risk of Destruction of the Idea of Right. Throughout the volume, prestigious international experts analyze these issues. Among them are Giuseppe Dalla Torre (Libera Universita Maria SS. Assunta), Jean Louis Ska (Pontificio Istituto Biblico), Robert P. George (Princeton University), Marta Cartabia (vice president of the Italian Constitutional Court), Carlos Ignacio Massini (Mendoza, Argentina), Barbara Zehnpfennig (Universitat Passau), Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard University), Joseph H. Weiler (New York University), and Roberto Baratta (Macerata, Italia). The volume also contains an essay by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, on "The Church's Interlocutors in the Debate and in the Affirmation of Human Rights."
About the Author
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Pierluca Azzaro is Executive secretary, Pope Benedict XVI Foundation.
Book Information
ISBN 9781733988933
Author Mary Ann Glendon
Format Hardback
Page Count 250
Imprint Franciscan Academic Press
Publisher Franciscan Academic Press
Weight(grams) 550g